rssAtlas Shrugged: The TV Special
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 9:14 am
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Libertarian TV journalist John Stossel gives readers of Reason magazine a preview of his new series on Fox Business Channel. He confesses that he has a special on Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” in the can and is thinking about airing it for the premiere.
I’m partial to an Atlas show because I reread the novel recently and was stunned. It was as if Rand had seen the future. Writing half a century ago, she predicted today’s explosion of big government in shockingly accurate detail.
The “Preservation of Livelihood Law.” The “Equalization of Opportunity Law.” The “Steel Unification Plan.”
Don’t these sound like laws passed by the current Congress?
All were creations of Rand’s villain, Wesley Mouch, the evil bureaucrat who regulates business and eventually drives the productive people out of business. Who is today’s Wesley Mouch? Barney Frank? Chris Dodd? Tim Geithner? I’ll ask my TV audience to vote.
Way back in March I reported on Rand’s comeback as an intellectual force for conservatives and libertarians, especially the comeback of “Atlas Shrugged.” Stossel has always been on this kick, though, treating “nanny state” regulations as blunt and clumsy incipient fascism.
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Comment posted December 11, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
“Barney Frank? Chris Dodd? Tim Geithner?”
WTF? Does Stossel not realize that these guys are propping up the current system, and preventing any real regulation of the supposed “creative class,” despite any protestations to the contrary?
Comment posted December 12, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Ayn Rand would have been appalled at what Wall St. almost did to this country. By using her name, he spits on the entire spirit of the woman's works.
Reason Magazine? Fox? More nonsense from weak-minded fools.
Comment posted December 12, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
Ayn Rand would have been appalled at what Wall St. almost did to this country. By using her name, he spits on the entire spirit of the woman's works.
Reason Magazine? Fox? More nonsense from weak-minded fools.
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